About Michael Ellis

Michael Ellis is a professional teacher and musician with 39 years of teaching experience. After the first twelve years of teaching, he understood that somebody had to step up and make learning chords easier. Try his books or eBooks today.

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This REVOLUTIONARY, NEW method teaches you how to understand chord titles so you can make piano chords without previous music experience, without note reading, without months of study.
Start playing... More > songs on piano today. Just read the chord names in songbooks and play the songs.
This is the easiest, most direct method of chord theory in the world. All of the necessary tools are there, while all of the information that you don't need and will never use has been eliminated.
Memorization is kept to an absolute minimum, but by the end of this book, you will have the knowledge needed to make over 5,000 chords on the piano, easily and logically.
This book is a "must-have" especially for keyboard players who want to play and perform like the pro's really do.< Less

Stop looking up guitar chords and memorizing pictures. Learn to understand what each chord title means. Learn how YOU can make any chord in just days. Each part of the guitar chord title is an... More > instruction. Learn what these instructions mean and use the two main barre chord shapes provided as the starting point, and you can make literally thousands of chords GUARANTEED! CHORDMASTER Chord Theory for Guitar takes you step-by step through learning the secrets to understanding chord titles, what they mean, and shows examples of how to make each chord two ways. Then you can apply this knowledge to make them even more ways.< Less

Here is the TRUTH about learning chords for piano.
You DO NOT have to MEMORIZE THE FORMULA FOR EACH CHORD.- - -
You DO NOT have to LEARN THE TREBLE CLEF.- - -
You DO NOT have to LEARN TO READ... More > NOTES.- - -
You DO NOT have to LOOK UP CHORDS ONE AT A TIME on a device or computer.- - -
You DO NOT have to MEMORIZE ALL THE MAJOR SCALES.- - -
You DO NOT have to MEMORIZE HUNDREDS OF CHORD PICTURES.- - -
For LESS THAN the cost of ONE LESSON, you will learn what each part of a chord name means so that you can build ANY chord quickly and logically, understanding what you are building and exactly why you are using the notes you are using. You will need to memorize :
** Where the notes are on the piano,
** The steps for any major scale,
** eight simple rules,
** be able to count to 13 in odd numbers!< Less

Each part of the guitar chord title is an instruction. Learn what these instructions mean and use the two main barre chord shapes provided as the starting point, and you can make literally thousands... More > of chords GUARANTEED! CHORDMASTER Chord Theory for Guitar takes you step-by step through learning the secrets to understanding chord titles, what they mean, and shows examples of how to make each chord two ways. Then you can apply this knowledge to make them even more ways.< Less